Combine dates from several custom settings

When a cart contains products that match more than one custom setting, Buunto normally applies only one of them: the one highest in your custom settings list (see Priority order).

The Combine dates when a cart matches several custom settings option changes this for available dates. When it's on, customers are only offered the dates that all matching custom settings allow.

Example

You have two custom settings, in this order:

1. Cakes (products tagged "Cake"): available Monday to Friday
2. Flowers (products in the "Flowers" collection): available Wednesday to Saturday

A customer adds a cake and a bouquet to their cart.

• Option off: Cakes is first in the list, so only its dates are used. The customer can pick any day from Monday to Friday, including a Monday or Tuesday when you don't deliver flowers.
• Option on: the customer can only pick a Wednesday, Thursday or Friday, the days both custom settings allow.

What gets combined

• Only available dates are combined. A date is offered only if it's available in every matching custom setting. This takes into account each custom setting's available days, cut-off times, how far ahead customers can book, and disabled dates.
• Custom settings without their own available dates use your Default ones. If such a custom setting matches the cart, your Default available dates are part of the combination too.
• Everything else still comes from the first match in the list. Time slots, messages, delivery surcharges, and pickup and delivery locations are taken from the matching custom setting highest in the list, as before.
• Checkout validation follows the same rule, so customers can't check out with a date that isn't allowed by all matching custom settings.

If the custom settings have no dates in common

If the matching custom settings don't share any date, the date picker shows no available dates for that cart. In the example above, this would happen if Flowers were only available on weekends. Check that custom settings likely to end up in the same cart have dates in common.

How to turn it on

1. In your Buunto admin, go to Settings > Custom settings.
2. Once you have at least two custom settings, an Options card appears below the list.
3. Tick Combine dates when a cart matches several custom settings.
4. Click Save.

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact our support team. We'll be happy to help!